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TREMAYNE: Bearman’s F1 debut was one of the most accomplished and impressive I’ve witnessed in 36 years of F1 reporting
Hall of Fame F1 Journalist
David TremayneOkay, Nigel Mansell won his first race in a Ferrari, but the man who finally went on to win the World Championship he deserved with Williams in 1992 had by that stage – Brazil, 1989 – competed in 122 Grands Prix and already won 13.
By contrast, when he took a sensational seventh place last Saturday evening in Jeddah, Ollie Bearman – the 12th Briton to race a works Ferrari – had driven but two FP1 sessions for Haas (in Mexico and Abu Dhabi last year) and FP3 and qualifying in Jeddah in the SF-24 he’d taken over from the incapacitated Carlos Sainz.
Let’s just take a step back and consider that calmly for a moment.
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